Year of publication 1984

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Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

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Pages 50 p.

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Author FAO

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Publisher FAO ;

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Product type Book (series)

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Category Technical study

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ISBN 9251021473

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Series title FAO Economic and Social Development Paper

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Series number 47

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Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) The FAO Statistics Division has published the results of the 1970 World Census of Agriculture, in a standard form, periodically issued as Census Bulletins entitled "Results by Cnuntries". A study of these results was presented in the "1970 World Census of Agriculture - Analysis and International Comparison of the Results", which included data on the main agricultural structures, such as number and area of agricultural holdings, land tenure, land use, characteristics of agricultural holders, and employment in agriculture. The information presented here gives the results of a statistical analysis of the agricultural holdings' main characteristics (i.e., distri­bution of the number and area by size, using the log normal distribution). The results show that the distribution of agricultural holdings can be represented fairly well for most of the countries by the lognormal distri­bution. Indices of concentration of agricultural land are also included. A practical application of the methods here described involves interpo­lating national data to match FAO standard size groups; this technique has been used by the FAO Statistics Division in preparing, in a standard form, the national agricultural census results. Accordingly, the results of this study are expected to contribute to the work on socio-economic indicators for monitoring and evaluating agrarian reform and rural development, and to further research work related to the structure of agriculture.

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Language English

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